> Researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security, who presented their findings yesterday at RootedCON in Madrid. > "Tarlogic

> Researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security, who presented their findings yesterday at RootedCON in Madrid. > "Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices I'd like to believe the didn't have ulterior reasons to cry "backdoor" knowing that's not the case. That would be a huge indictment of the researchers' characters. They wanted the spotlight and calling something a "backdoor in a chip used by a billion devices" does the job.